Graham Ross

Conductor

Graham Ross has established an exceptional reputation as a sought-after conductor and composer across a very broad range of repertoire. He is co-founder and Principal Conductor of The Dmitri Ensemble and Director of Music and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, with whom his performances around the world and extensive discography have earned consistently high praise. In demand as a regular guest conductor with other ensembles in the UK and internationally, his collaborations have included performances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Aalborg Symfoniorkester, DR Vokal Ensemblet, Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra, and international tours with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge.
At the age of 25, he made his debuts at the BBC Proms and Glyndebourne, with further operatic work taking him to Jerusalem, London, Aldeburgh and Provence. He has conducted and recorded world premières by a wide spectrum of composers including James MacMillan, Judith Bingham, Giles Swayne, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Imogen Holst, Nico Muhly, Brett Dean, Lydia Kakabadse and Matthew Martin. He has conducted on more than twenty albums and, since 2011, has recorded exclusively for Harmonia Mundi. His album Vidi Speciosam: Sacred Choral Music with The Bevan Family Consort was released by Signum Classics in May 2023.
His composition commissions have received premières from the BBC Concert Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra, O Duo, Park Lane Group and the Solstice Quartet. He is founder and Artistic Director of Singers Abroad and a Trustee and Patron of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio and has appeared as a guest presenter on Inside Music. In 2021, he was appointed Honorary Fellow of the University of Macau, where he received the Half Moon Award for the Arts in 2019.
Ross studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and conducting at the Royal College of Music, London. He held a conducting scholarship with the London Symphony Chorus and has served as assistant conductor to Vladimir Jurowski, Diego Masson, Sir Roger Norrington and Nicholas Collon, as well as Chorus Master for Sir Colin Davis, Sir Mark Elder, Ivor Bolton, Edward Gardner, Richard Tognetti and Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
Recent highlights include performances with Hong Kong’s Tallis Vocalis, The Bevan Family Consort, BBC Singers, DR Koncertkoret with the DR Symphony Orchestra, Ars Nova Copenhagen, and a US tour with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge.